Sunday, October 28, 2012

Fox News and Republican operatives are working fast and furiously on the
social media networks to spew their lies and innuendoes over what truly happened in Benghazi that night last month when al-Qaeda terrorists used a
non-violent anti-American demonstration in Benghazi to invade the consulate
compound and kill 4 Americans, including the American ambassador.

The risks outshine the rewards. We very probably won’t know
for months, if ever, what happened, and who knew what happened and when did
they know it. All of this is now the subject of idle speculation on the
internet, but only somel of it is meant to fire up the base. The base is
already fired up and in all probability has already voted.

No, the goal of this whispering campaign that seems to have
taken the social media pages by storm is to nudge the true fence-sitters in the
election to vote for Mitt Romney, or at the very least, not to vote for Barack
Obama. Because in truth, it has come down to just a couple of percent of the
voters one way or the other. And the advantage will always fall to the biggest
liar in the argument.

Lies that go unanswered get heard time and time again. Rock
meet hard place. The only thing one accomplishes by answering a bald-faced lie
is to lend credence to the lie. To lend authority to the liar. So all of these
speculations on what might have been done, who might have known what, and why
did Barack Obama just stand and watch them kill his ambassador on a 52 inch
television screen (OK, maybe only a 44 inch screen)are meant to raise doubt where none existed
before. These detailed accounts of what our government knew and when they knew
it are completely uncited.

Bottom line, if these charges were credible, where are the witnesses? The truth is that there is not one witness to all of these speculated
events. Not even a "he said."

Republicans have effectively used the art of lying in past
Octobers, and have even used them effectively among themselves (ask John McCain
about his black daughter). October surprises are anything but surprises
anymore. Even using the tragic deaths of Americans in harm's way is not beyond these vile accusers.